/**
 * Copyright (C) 2010 Zhang, Guilin <guilin.zhang@hotmail.com>
 *
 * Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License");
 * you may not use this file except in compliance with the License.
 * You may obtain a copy of the License at
 *
 *         http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
 *
 * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
 * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
 * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
 * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
 * limitations under the License.
 */

package com.google.code.http4j;

import java.io.Closeable;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.OutputStream;

/**
 * @author <a href="mailto:guilin.zhang@hotmail.com">Zhang, Guilin</a>
 *
 */
public interface Connection extends Closeable {
	
	void connect() throws IOException;
	
	void setTimeout(int timeout);
	
	boolean isClosed();
	
	InputStream getInputStream() throws IOException;
	
	OutputStream getOutputStream() throws IOException;
	
	Host getHost();
	
	void setReusable(boolean reusable);
	
	/**
	 * @return <code>true</code> if the connection is based on HTTP/1.1 above and is not closed.
	 * 			<code>false</code> if the connection is based on HTTP/1.0 or is closed.
	 */
	boolean isReusable();
}
